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Then you go to Lascaux. When the Stone Age cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux were stumbled upon in modern times, archaeologists and anthropologists regarded them as certainly frauds.

Artist Gilles Tosello is one of the craftspeople who has been copying the paintings using the same charcoal and tools that his Stone Age forerunners used. "The prehistoric artists wrote the score ...

This wasn’t a one-time usage situation, either—the for thousands of years, spanning the final Middle Stone Age and the Late ...

Chauvet Cave. Discovered in late 1994, Chauvet Cave is the location for one of the oldest and best-preserved collections of prehistoric paintings in the world. Located near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in ...

Prehistoric horses came in at least "three coat color[s]," Ludwig says, "and exactly these three [colors] are also seen in cave paintings. Cave art is more realistic than often suggested." ...

We marvel at Stone Age cave paintings, mighty megaliths, and mysterious goddesses. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, prehistoric Europe bloomed with surprisingly sophisticated art. From Ireland to ...

Stone Age Cave Paintings Found in Northern Spain One of the prehistoric artworks found in Danbolinzulo cave in Zestoa, Gipuzkoa. Photo courtesy of the province of Gipuzkoa.

Europeans may not have been the first cave artists. Some prehistoric paintings in Indonesia, such as the hand stencils shown here, could be more than 40,000 years old. Paintings of miniature ...

To reach the only place in the world where cave paintings of prehistoric marine life have been found, archaeologists have to dive to the bottom of the Mediterranean off southern France.

If you thought prehistoric cave art was just daubs of hunting scenes, you need to think again. The latest research suggests that some of the oldest cave paintings in the world were ancient ...

What they found that Sunday in 1994 still fills Chauvet’s voice with wonder: an immense cave covered with prehistoric paintings of horses, mammoths and rhinos — paintings so vivid, he says, it ...